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1 month ago | 
arxiv.org | Taylor Le
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le
Essay by Mya FrazierPhotographs by Jesse RieserI had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It kicked up a thick dust cloud that coated my windshield, and from then on, it was like watching some dystopian film looping on fast-forward inside the frame of my car window. The monotonous succession of stricken row crops flashed by. It had been a brutal harvest for Ohio’s farmers.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
arxiv.org | Taylor Le
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May 9, 2024 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le |Dean Bakopoulos
Now, it was Christmas Eve, and we had lived in Mineral Point for nearly three years. We had a four-year-old girl and year-old boy. I remember coming back from Christmas Eve services with my daughter in tears. She had been an angel in the Christmas play and had been shushed by Mary for starting her song too early.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le
Essay by Dimiter KenarovAll illustrations featured in this essay are part of the Bulgarian Visual Archive, a digital project that curates thousands of found and donated photographs. BVA aims to narrate the history of 20th-century Bulgaria through the visual record of both private and public events that have usually been pushed to the margins of official narratives. As part of its mission, BVA offers all of its photographs for download free of charge, for both personal and commercial purposes.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le |Jori Lewis
By Jori LewisIllustrations by Yannick LoweryProduced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network The air conditioner was malfunctioning. When I bought the car used in January, the owner said she had just fixed it, but here I was on a steamy August day on the Atlantic coast of Senegal, with the vents pouring hot air into the already hot car. So, it was my imminent dehydration talking when I skidded to a stop in front of a roadside fruit seller’s table.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le |Lygia Navarro
By Lygia NavarroPhoto illustrations by Nuance My world is 640 square feet.I spend most days on my bed, propped up by pillows, my legs covered with a wool blanket to stanch the pain. From my windows, all I can see are a row of gingkoes, a dozen condo high-rises, and open sky. On a lucky day, there will be snow, or an orange sunset, or a red-tailed hawk floating on warm currents hunting for prey. A decade ago when I moved to Canada, I felt the world expand.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le |Paisley Rekdal
By Paisley RekdalOnce, there were three. Now only twosurvive, the third’s sawtooth comb of bloodfeathering the walk. Still, its nestmates call and call. To drive it backto them. To locate themselves against its answer,their safety. No answer. I watched that one, once-living hawk paste itself to my gutter, mothwings drooping as its thin claws scrabbled at the metal,the long neck pulsing uselesslywith hunger— Didn’t it seemlike a gift at firstto watch these hawks become themselves?
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
cats.com | Liz Coleman |Taylor Le
The Cats.com Standard—Rating Surefeed Microchip Pet Feeder on What MattersWe’ve rated the brand on five key criteria for quality. Here’s how it rates in each of these five crucial areas. Ease of Setup: 10/10Construction: 8/10Ease of Cleaning: 7/10Appearance: 10/10Price: 4/10Overall Score: 7.8/10Why Trust Cats.comAs a cat product reviewer and lifelong cat parent, I understand the utility of microchip feeders—as well as the features that will be most important to cats and their people.
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Oct 16, 2023 | 
switchyardmag.com | Taylor Le
Interview by Ted GenowaysIllustrations courtesy of Art SpiegelmanThe summer before I started high school, a shop called Cosmic Comics opened in a strip mall within short walking distance of my house. It was June 1986. I started hanging out there and eventually was given a “job”—which was really getting store credit in return for racking new arrivals, bagging and tagging back issues, and listening to the college kids talk about comics that I’d never heard of.
